August 1, 2025

Syntactic Complexity Phenomena Are Better Explained Without Empty Elements Mediating Long-Distance Dependencies.

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Results show minimal processing costs for long-distance dependencies, supporting nontransformational theories over transformational ones.
Experiments revealed that conventional transformational theories predict significant processing costs that were not observed.
Acceptability judgment experiments on English materials were employed to compare syntactic theories effectively.
Findings imply nontransformational models better account for empirical data, challenging long-standing transformational theories.

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Acceptability judgment experiments reveal that processing costs for long-distance dependencies may be minimal, highlighting nontransformational theories.

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Cunha et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68af4754ad7bf08b1ead3d3f https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70088

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Acceptability judgment experiments reveal that processing costs for long-distance dependencies may be minimal, highlighting nontransformational theories.

Syntactic Complexity Phenomena Are Better Explained Without Empty Elements Mediating Long-Distance Dependencies.

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Syntactic Complexity Phenomena Are Better Explained Without Empty Elements Mediating Long-Distance Dependencies.

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